A global network of small automated telescopes, the Taiwan Automated Telescope (TAT) network, dedicated to photometric measurements of stellar pulsations, is under construction. Two telescopes have been installed in Teide Observatory, Tenerife, Spain and Maidanak Observatory, Uzbekistan. The third telescope will be installed at Mauna Loa

The origin of supersonic infrared and radio recombination nebular lines often detected in young and massive superstar clusters is discussed. We suggest that these arise from a collection of repressurizing shocks (RSs), acting effectively to re-establish pressure balance within the cluster volume and from the cluster wind which leads to an even

We summarize our results based on observations with the NIRI camera on the Gemini North telescope of three Hii galaxies (Mrk 36, UM 408 and UM 461), obtained to identify and determine the ages and masses of the elementary components (the star cluster population) of the starburst regions in compact Hii galaxies. Our preliminary results indicate that

Super star clusters (SSCs) are young massive objects typically observed in starburst galaxies. They consist of millions of stars occupying volumes only several parsecs across. Recent infrared observations of SSCs reveal strong emission lines with moderately supersonic widths (FWHM ~ 50 - 100 km s-1). An additional, much broader and weaker line

The photometric and spectroscopic data of the sample galaxies were obtained at the very large telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at Paranal Observatory during three different runs between 2001 and 2003. The observations were carried out in service mode on May 05 - 2001 July 03 (run 1), April 13 - 2002 June 03 (run 2) and

We present five serendipitous spectroscopic interacting Lyman break galaxy (LBG) pairs and six candidate pairs from our z 3 Keck survey. All galaxies in the pairs exhibit Lyα in emission and we show that this is not a selection effect. A complete investigation of all LBG spectroscopic-photometric pairs with at least one spectroscopically confirmed